Table 2.

miRNA homologs expressed by AHV-1 and MDV-1

Name	miRNA sequencea	No. of identical nt/total in seed region (nt positions 2–8)
AHV-1-pre-miR-7	-CAUGGGAACAUU-UAACACCCC GCAUGGAAACGUCCUGGGAAA- - * * * * * †* * * † * † * † † *	5/7
MDV-1-miR-M13
AHV-1-pre-miR-9	UAUGUUUUGCCCGGGCAAAUG-UCUGUUGUUCCGUAGUGUUCUC * * * * * * * * † * † † †	5/7
MDV-1-miR-M6-5p

^a Sequences of orthologous miRNAs expressed by AHV-1 and MDV-1 aligned using ClustalW2. The seed sequences are shown in boldface. Identical nucleotides and nucleotides with conserved target binding potential are indicated with * and †, respectively.